Critical Article Presentation
Carrie
Kat
Melissa
6/4/14 Hayles Chapter 2,Hypertext as Digital Code
~ Follow aspects of Modern Art
Juxtaposition
Appropriation
Assemblage
Concatenation
Blurring limits, edges, borders
Blurring distinctions between border and ground
~ Print vs Text
Print moves in one direction vs hypertext where the reader can choose their direction
Quotes in hypertext can stand alone as a voice vs being summarized or changed through text
~ Links
Links connect hypertext, but they can also stand alone as individual pieces
Those individual pieces make up a collage where the pieces may have parallel structure or verbal echoing
This creates juxtaposition
~Discussion
2. Do the spatial arrangements such as: tiles, webs, placement of lexia, or multiple window systems involve you in the narrative?
6/10/14
Hayles Chapter 4, Revealing and Transforming; How Electronic Literature Revalues Computational Practice
Javier Chapa
Carrie Camargo Chapter 4 Analysis
In chapter four, Kathrine Hayles says that the recursive loops that eliterature creates [Hayles loops are between embodied practice, tacit knowledge, and explicit articulation] gives us the opportunity to explore exactly what makes us human in an era of web based connectivity and the computerization of many, if not all, facets of society. Hayles states, “Human agency operates with complex systems in which nonhuman actors play important roles”. The start of this chapter is Hayles contemplating “coevolution", the ways in which literature affects the way we value and see “computational practice” as that practice also affects and transforms literature.
"Electronic literature extends the traditional functions of print literature in creating recursive feedback loops between explicit articulation, conscious thought and embodied sensorimotor knowledge.
The feedback loops progress in both directions, up from embodied sensorimotor knowledge to explicit articulation, and down from explicit articulation to sensorimotor knowledge. While print literature also operates in this way, electronic literature preforms the additional function of entwining human was of knowing with machine cognitions" (p. 135).
Hayles reveals her thesis in this chapter as well. Hayles postulates that eliterature, “…extends the traditional functions of print literature in creating recursive feedback loops between explicit articulation, conscious thought, and embodied sensorimotor knowledge…eliterature performs the additional function of entwining human ways of knowing with machine cognitions” (135). So change in any part of the recursive loop results in new understandings (and changing cognitions) within the loop.
Knowledges: an object of conscious thought or bodily knowledge
"These knowledges typically remain unevenly articulated with one another - distributed among different ways of knowing" (p. 138).
"Everyone comes to digital literature with differentials. If we knew everything uniformly, there would be much less to discover" (p. 139)"
Thus, the recursive loops that occurred in literature have an added dimension. Hayles quotes the Zen poet Donald Rumsfeld writing that the purposes of literature, “…are to reveal what we know but don’t know that we know, and to transform what we know we know into what we don’t yet know” (132). Hayles gives many examples of how eliterature plays a role in disrupting our normal reading traditions, creating new traditions, but recognizing that this change is partly due to human use of new technology and, at the same time, that same technology effects the possibilities of use and understanding for humans. The way that this fits with literature is best summed up when Hayles quotes Brian Kim Stefans [writer of Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics] writing that every accomplished work of literary art has, “…elements that resist totalizing interpretations…” (155). The computer just adds another layer that further complicates our understanding of human cognition, and adds an interplay between human and machine language and understanding.
Propositions:
Verbal narratives are simultaneously conveyed and disrupted by code
Stuart Moulthrop: "minute abysses puncturing the illusion that the human life-world remains unchanged by its integration with intelligent machines" (p.136-137)
2. Distributed cognition implies distributed agency
Andy Clark: "we are human-technology symboints constantly inventing ways to offload cognition into environmental affordances so that the mind is just less in the head"(p. 137).
6/11/14
Media Specific Analysis, Story Land ELC
Carrie Camargo
Melissa Green
Overview
Story Land (ELC) is one of the oldest forms of digital writing. It was created by Nanette Wylde in 2002. There is a circus theme that features a sampling of recombinant narratives. They have repetitive plots that feature social stereotypes and elements of pop culture. Each line is constructed from a collection of possibilities. A popular circus tune plays at the introduction of the Story Land heading each time a narrative is refreshed.
Author
Nanette Wylde is a conceptual artist, writer and cultural worker making socially reflective, language-based works generally in hybrid media. She has a BA in Behavioral Science from San Jose State University. Her MFA is in Interactive Multimedia from Ohio State University. She is Professor of Art & Art History at California State University, Chico where she developed and heads the Digital Media/Electronic Arts Program. Information retrieved from: http://rhizome.org/profiles/nanettewylde1/
Textual Features: Melissa
Media Features:
Multi-colored/flashing heading acred like a circus tent
Colors mimic flashing lights at a circus
Basic black screen with white lettering, which is at odds with the heading
Lines of the narrative appear one at a time
Reader has no control over line addition
The screen does not advance automatically
The multi-colored Story Land heading reappears and flashes when the reader clicks to begin a new narrative
Analysis/Interpretation:
Story Land (ELC) mirrors pop culture in the repetition and recycling of narratives and characters. Sarcasm is present the characters and situations presented as well as in the the underlying theme of the e-literature.
Carrie
Kat
Melissa
6/4/14
Hayles Chapter 2, Hypertext as Digital Code
~ Follow aspects of Modern Art
~ Print vs Text
~ Links
~Discussion
2. Do the spatial arrangements such as: tiles, webs, placement of lexia, or multiple window systems involve you in the narrative?
6/10/14
Hayles Chapter 4, Revealing and Transforming; How Electronic Literature Revalues Computational Practice
Javier Chapa
Carrie Camargo
Chapter 4 Analysis
In chapter four, Kathrine Hayles says that the recursive loops that eliterature creates [Hayles loops are between embodied practice, tacit knowledge, and explicit articulation] gives us the opportunity to explore exactly what makes us human in an era of web based connectivity and the computerization of many, if not all, facets of society. Hayles states, “Human agency operates with complex systems in which nonhuman actors play important roles”. The start of this chapter is Hayles contemplating “coevolution", the ways in which literature affects the way we value and see “computational practice” as that practice also affects and transforms literature.
"Electronic literature extends the traditional functions of print literature in creating recursive feedback loops between explicit articulation, conscious thought and embodied sensorimotor knowledge.
The feedback loops progress in both directions, up from embodied sensorimotor knowledge to explicit articulation, and down from explicit articulation to sensorimotor knowledge. While print literature also operates in this way, electronic literature preforms the additional function of entwining human was of knowing with machine cognitions" (p. 135).
Hayles reveals her thesis in this chapter as well. Hayles postulates that eliterature, “…extends the traditional functions of print literature in creating recursive feedback loops between explicit articulation, conscious thought, and embodied sensorimotor knowledge…eliterature performs the additional function of entwining human ways of knowing with machine cognitions” (135). So change in any part of the recursive loop results in new understandings (and changing cognitions) within the loop.
Thus, the recursive loops that occurred in literature have an added dimension. Hayles quotes the Zen poet Donald Rumsfeld writing that the purposes of literature, “…are to reveal what we know but don’t know that we know, and to transform what we know we know into what we don’t yet know” (132). Hayles gives many examples of how eliterature plays a role in disrupting our normal reading traditions, creating new traditions, but recognizing that this change is partly due to human use of new technology and, at the same time, that same technology effects the possibilities of use and understanding for humans. The way that this fits with literature is best summed up when Hayles quotes Brian Kim Stefans [writer of Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics] writing that every accomplished work of literary art has, “…elements that resist totalizing interpretations…” (155). The computer just adds another layer that further complicates our understanding of human cognition, and adds an interplay between human and machine language and understanding.
- Verbal narratives are simultaneously conveyed and disrupted by code
Stuart Moulthrop: "minute abysses puncturing the illusion that the human life-world remains unchanged by its integration with intelligent machines" (p.136-137)2. Distributed cognition implies distributed agency
Andy Clark: "we are human-technology symboints constantly inventing ways to offload cognition into environmental affordances so that the mind is just less in the head"(p. 137).
6/11/14
Media Specific Analysis, Story Land ELC
Carrie Camargo
Melissa Green
Overview
Story Land (ELC) is one of the oldest forms of digital writing. It was created by Nanette Wylde in 2002. There is a circus theme that features a sampling of recombinant narratives. They have repetitive plots that feature social stereotypes and elements of pop culture. Each line is constructed from a collection of possibilities. A popular circus tune plays at the introduction of the Story Land heading each time a narrative is refreshed.
Author
Nanette Wylde is a conceptual artist, writer and cultural worker making socially reflective, language-based works generally in hybrid media. She has a BA in Behavioral Science from San Jose State University. Her MFA is in Interactive Multimedia from Ohio State University. She is Professor of Art & Art History at California State University, Chico where she developed and heads the Digital Media/Electronic Arts Program.
Information retrieved from: http://rhizome.org/profiles/nanettewylde1/
Textual Features: Melissa
Media Features:
Analysis/Interpretation:
Story Land (ELC) mirrors pop culture in the repetition and recycling of narratives and characters. Sarcasm is present the characters and situations presented as well as in the the underlying theme of the e-literature.
Reading Experience:Melissa